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Straight to the Core
Volcanos
What's inside
Whats happening to the Earth
Misc.
100
The thin outermost layer of the Eath
What is The Crust
100
Magma that flows on the Earth's surface
What is lava
100
the theory that the Earth's lithosphere is divided into tectonic plates that move around on to of the asthenosphere
What is Plate Tectonics
100
The type of stress that occurs when forces act to stretch an object
What is Tension
100
A funnel shaped pit around the central vent of a volcano
What is crater
200
The central, spherical part of the Earth below the mantle
What is The Core
200
The point inside the Earth where an earthquake begins
What is focus
200
The region where an oceanic plate sinks down into the asthenosphere at a convergent boundary
What is Subduction Zone
200
The bending of rock layers due to stress in the Earths crust
What is folding
200
The amount of force per unit area that is put on a given material
What is stress
300
The outermost rigid layer of the Earth that consists of the crust
What is Lithosphere
300
A large gently sloped volcano that forms from repeated, nonexplosive eruptions of lava.
What is shield volcano
300
The boundary between 2 tectonic plates that are sliding past eachother horizontally
What is Transform Boundary
300
A fault in which the hanging wall moves up relative to the footwall
What is Reverse fault
300
The fastest type of seismic wave
What is P waves
400
The solid dense center of the Earth
What is Inner core
400
A volcano made of alternating layers of lava and pyrolastic material
What is composite volcano
400
The boundary bettween 2 tectonic plates that are moving away from each other
What is Divergent Boundary
400
A fault in which the 2 fault blocks move past each other horizontally.
What is strike-skip fault
400
A place on Earth's surface that is directly above a column of rising magma called mantle plume
What is Hot Spot
500
A peice of the lithosphere that moves on top of the asthenosphere
What is Tectonic plate
500
Fragments of rock that are created by explosive volcanic eruptions
What is Pyrolastic material
500
The boundary bettween 2 colliding tectonic plates
What is convergent boundary
500
A fault in which the hanging wall moves down relative to the footwall
What is normal fault
500
The point of the Earth's surface directly above the Earthquake's starting point.
What is Epicenter